Resource Listings

CSR Europe's Toolbox: Equipping Companies and Stakeholders for a Competitive and Responsible Europe

CSR Europe's Toolbox includes information, ideas and advice designed to help companies and their stakeholders address socio-economic and environmental challenges and integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) into mainstream business practice.

Guidelines to Enhance CSR in the Construction Sector

The project has carried out important theoretical research on CSR issues related to the constructions sector in five countries: Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary and Portugal. The project analyzed 114 best practices within the four focus areas: health&safety, eco-compatibility, supply chain, equal opportunities.

Norsk Hydro ASA: Sustainable PVC at Hydro Polymers?

The purpose of the case is to demonstrate a strategic approach to sustainable development that connects corporate responsibility to core business strategy and planning to enable sustainable value creation for shareholders and society at large.

Innocent: Values and Value

The case study examines how the founders of innocent launched a company whose business strategy incorporated their social values from the outset and how they ensured that as innocent grew from a start-up with three founders to a medium-sized company all new employees understood and shared the corporate values of the organisation.

Embedding Sustainability in Organizational Culture

The best practices that emerged from the workshop of senior sustainability and HR executives are presented here in a five-part framework. Sustainability and HR professionals are encouraged to map their own sustainability initiatives against this framework and to identify the specific practices that could help them further integrate sustainability into their own organizations’ cultures.

Betapharm: Be Different or Die

This case explores one company’s strategic approach to Corporate Responsibility activities against a backdrop of changing dynamics in their domestic market and sector.

Managing the New Frontiers

Companies around the world are reducing their energy and material expenses by 90%, increasing sales up to 40%, and raising productivity 20% or more - with little or no capital investment - while watching their costs, waste, and carbon emissions drop like a stone. This book, in plain easy-to-understand language, shows how.

The Development of Governance Structures for Corporate Responsibility

This paper by Heiko Spitzeck seeks to explore patterns of integrating corporate responsibility issues into corporate governance mechanisms and their development over time.

Benchmarking Sustainability and Carbon Assurance in the FTSE 350

Fron this report the readers may study questions credibility of FTSE 350 sustainability and carbon data, learn about how credible sustainability and carbon reporting really is and see which assurance approaches pay better.

Research Insight: Businesses—Especially in North America — Need More Effective and Consistent Actions to Reduce Emissions

This Research Insight by NBS is based on the Journal article "North American Business Strategies Towards Climate Change" by Jones, Charles, & Levy, David.